Common Names

Parts Usually Used

Description of Plant(s) and Culture

A hardy, creeping, low perennial plant 6-18 inches high; its blackish
rootstock sends out slender, rooting runners (somewhat like strawberries)
and also produces a rosette of basal, dark green, pinnate leaves consisting
of 13-21 oblong, serrate leaflets that are dark green on top and covered
with silvery hairs beneath. In the leaves, large leaflets alternate
with small leaflets. The bright-yellow flowers grow singly on long
peduncles, stalks growing from the leaf axils; blooms from May to
September. The root has a bitter, styptic taste.

Where Found

Found in dry fields, wet meadows and banks, and pastures and also
in damp marshy places all over North American and Europe. Found across
Canada to the arctic circle, South in northern areas of the United
States and the Rockies to New Mexico.